Sentences with phrase «zebra finches»

And in experiments on zebra finches, investigators found that a bird's lifespan depended on the temperament of its companions.

Zebra finches, red - cheeked little songbirds from Australia, are used in labs as a model for vocal learning.

Mark Dion, The Library for the Birds of London (detail), 2018, mixed media; steel, wood, books, zebra finches, and found objects, installation view of Mark Dion: Theatre of the Natural World at Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2018.

Mark Dion, The Library for the Birds of London (detail) 2018, mixed media; steel, wood, books, zebra finches and found objects, installation view, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2018.

His installation for The Curve will take the form of a walk - though aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitars and other instruments and objects.

Dion's new commission is The Library for the Birds of London (2018), a giant walk - in aviary where visitors can wander amongst a sociable flock of zebra finches which flit, chirrup and chatter around a dead apple tree.

The area offers year - round sightings for emus, various parrots and wedge - tailed eagles, with migratory rainbow bee - eaters, budgerigars and zebra finches a highlight in warmer months.

When I bought two Himalayan kittens many years ago, I already had a parakeet, three pairs of zebra finches and one pair of Gouldian finches.

Play Time Another myth about birds is that non-parrot species, such as the popular zebra finches and canaries, don't need to play with toys like the more clever parrots do.

Although some birds, like zebra finches, can become aggressive toward other birds of the same species, especially if housed in a small cage or if there are two males and only one female.

The Veterinary Teaching Hospital has a lot in common with human medical centers, but our facility is here to help animal patients: anything from alpacas to zebra finches.

The minimum recommended cage size for a breeding pair of zebra finches is 24 x 24 x 24 inches.

Breeding zebra finches first requires that a pair meet the health, nesting and nutritional requirements for breeding.

Zebra finches, especially breeders, need adequate room to fly and exercise.

Zebra finches are a favorite of bird owners and have a fairly long life expectancy of five to nine years.

2 dogs — a hound / Pyrenees and a terrier mix, 2 zebra finches, and a betta fish.

Dr. Sackal lives in Boulder with her husband, rabbits, guinea pigs, two cats, veiled Chameleon, parakeets, and zebra finches.

A Dwarf Hamster, two cockatiels, four Budgies, with two Zebra Finches.

Society finches are a lot like zebra finches in the sense that they are hardy and breed even more readily, making them great for new bird owners as well.

Many color varieties of zebra finches are available, although the naturally slate gray body with bright orange cheeks and black barring on the males is quite lovely.

Jen currently works and resides in The Hague, the «second capital» of Holland, with her husband and two noisy zebra finches.

She currently resides in The Hague where she lives with her husband and two noisy zebra finches.

In summary, we have demonstrated that sperm from different males are differentially stored in the SSTs of female zebra finches.

FoxP2 is expressed in the striatum of human embryos and of 1 day post hatch (1d) zebra finches [14].

Here, we used zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) to investigate the role of FoxP2 in song learning.

Juvenile male zebra finches (n = 4 at 25d or n = 17 at 35d) were deafened by bilateral removal of the cochlea as described in Konishi (1965)[32].

Adkins - Regan, E, Mansukani, V., Seiwert, C. Thompson, R. (1994) Sexual differentiation of brain and behavior in zebra finches.

The startle factor To investigate what he calls this «surprising» result, Margoliash and graduate student Amish Dave played digital recordings of a bird's own song to sleeping zebra finches.

Juvenile zebra finches that experience high stress levels will ignore how their own parents forage and instead learn such skills from other, unrelated adults.

Like many humans, zebra finches pair up socially for life.

Now let's pause for a second and point out some similarities between humans and zebra finches.

The study, published Monday in PLOS Biology, put male and female zebra finches into a room and let them pair up.

Scientists have identified neural circuits in zebra finches that drive song learning and have shown that the process requires the precise coordination of multiple regions spread across the brain.

These findings largely agree with earlier reports on zebra finches producing loud notes with large beak gapes (Ohms et al., 2010b).

We measured gene expression of Cry1, Cry2 and Cry4 in the retina, muscle and brain of zebra finches over the circadian day to assess whether they showed any circadian rhythmicity.

Additionally, in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata), which produce a wide range of broad - band note types, expansion of the OEC has also been found to affect frequency patterns by shifting energy to relatively lower frequencies while amplitude generally increases (Ohms et al., 2010b).

After researchers discovered in 2004 that FOXP2 is expressed in the same areas of the brain in humans and zebra finches, a song - learning bird, neurobiologist Constance Scharff of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin began to investigate whether such birds could help scientists understand how humans learn language.

When the birds were 23 days old, the age at which song learning is known to begin, the researchers injected the gene - silencing RNA strands into seven male zebra finches» brains, using 10 finches as controls.

The scientists measured telomere length in red blood cells of 99 captive zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata).

But now scientists say they have found a true lifeline in the cells of Zebra finches.

At the University's laboratory aviary, female zebra finches provide Dr Stowell with plenty of audio examples for his work.

Scharff and her colleagues used RNA interference (RNAi), a procedure that inhibits gene expression, to reduce the levels of FOXP2 in zebra finches.

McAuley also works with Juli Wade, professor and chairperson of MSU's Department of Psychology, to investigate rhythm perceptions in zebra finches to probe the neurobiological source of stuttering.

Now, researchers have found that a gene responsible for clear pronunciation in humans is also critical for proper song development in zebra finches.

The Rockefeller researchers found that adult zebra finches also produce new projection neurons — although at half the rate of the canary — despite the fact that these birds keep the same song for life.

Lowering the hormone prolactin in zebra finches reduces the time and attention both males and females spend taking care of their chicks, the study found.

They found that lowering prolactin either eliminated or drastically reduced both brooding and feeding the chicks for both male and female zebra finches.

Duke University scientists report in PLoS ONE this week that they attempted to pinpoint regions of the brain responsible for vocal skills by studying three types of birds (parrots, hummingbirds and songbirds) capable of picking up new songs and utterances as well as birds (zebra finches and ringed turtle doves) that lack the ability.

«Based on our first species studied, starlings and Zebra Finches, we went into this thinking that superfast fibers were related to singing in males.

Estrogen levels quadrupled around the damaged area in both male and female zebra finches after researchers gave...